Title Lifestyle media and the formation of the self / Jayne Raisborough

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 185 pages) : illustrations Contents pt. 1. Introducing lifestyle citizens -- pt. 2. Framing the self -- pt. 3. Before and after Summary ""Be the best you can be" urge self-help books and makeover TV shows, but what kind of self is imagined as needing a makeover and what kind of self is imagined as the happy result? Drawing on recent sociology and psychology, this book explores the function of slummy mummies, headless zombies and living autopsies to creating an idea of self"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Lifestyles. Mass media -- Social aspects. Self-actualization (Psychology) Popular culture. PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology. Society. Lifestyles Mass media -- Social aspects Self-actualization (Psychology) Massenmedien Lebensstil Selbstverwirklichung Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230297555 0230297552 1282998935 9781282998933

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